My thought bubble is whatever animal I'm currently seeing with an exclamation point after it.
Porn! Chipotle! Xbox!
I don't have these animals in my Pokédex
And the shape and colour of the exclamation point depends on which animal it is? As in a kitten causes it to be pink and the dot to be heart shaped while a bed bug changes it to a horror font?
Exactly!!
I'm perfectly happy with my four dialogue choices without any fancy persuasion checks.
I like the idea of NPC energy, especially when working in customer service - sometimes I feel like a vendor in a camp talking with customers and dropping random rumors or tips to them
This is legitimately my 40s so far
except my thought bubble is full of cool mutual aid shit and cute puppers instead of sandwiches, which is just as tasty imho
Please stop eating cute puppers, no matter how tasty they are :(
Insanity. I'm not putting in the effort required to live just to be an NPC.
Fortunately there is no protagonist. Everyone is the centre of their own story and a participant in everyone else's.
It's just an oversimplified position. I think you can want very little (quantity wise, as number of desires), but exercise massive amounts of will to achieve it. And then you can live with more or less ego, or more or less empathy and care.
I'm sure there's dozens of other ways to do it. You just can't get there with "NPC" and "not NPC".
Some people are much more the protagonist in their story than other people. And then there's the degree to which the story actually overlaps with reality. You can make it all up and not follow up on it, or you can make it come true, and everything in between, human reality does allow for that.
I think the whole point is that being an NPC takes less effort and the older one gets, the more one realizes this.
I understand that. My point is that the lessened effort isn't worth the complete lack of agency.
I suspect that whether or not the juice is worth the squeeze is highly variable from person to person, and depends on a whole host of internal and external variables. For most, they eventually come to the conclusion that it isn't, but only after squeezing very hard for a very long time.
If you get older that stance may change. Hustle if you want, don't if you don't.
As an older gamer I enjoy games, even shooters, for their scenery or vehicles (love to race around with no destination) or subtle jokes - and all that can be enjoyed best by behaving backgroundly like a NPC.
Same. Don't need to be a protagonist, but I will definitely not stop thinking all the massive thoughts. I will Peter Quill my way to growth and pulling others up around me.
Main Character Syndrome never ends for some. 
"nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to"
Tbh that is exactly what I do when I'm on my way to the deli
🥪
Oh my God I had this amazing sandwich the other day. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. I think I'm gonna get another one tomorrow.
Yup. Breakfast. Followed by going back to bed.
haha. that's life for me too.
I'm just walking around with a 
thought bubble because I'm constantly angry at capitalism.
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